Editor’s Note: The above paper first appeared in a limited print run as one of the Thomas Lowe Gray Memorial Lectures sponsored by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the United Kingdom. The lecture was presented by Vice Admiral Sir Robert Hill on 19 April 2005.

J. Charles Schencking, Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy: 1868-1922. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005.Reviewed by Terrance Rucker
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